From kde-devel  Mon May 17 09:07:22 1999
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () ens ! ascom ! ch>
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 09:07:22 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Are we connected ? - Solution-idea more info (2)
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Bjoern Kahl wrote:
> 
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> On 14-May-99 Bjoern Kahl wrote:
> >
> >   Hallo !
> >
> >   I am working some time now on a way to manage Networkconnections to
> >   the internet, including a way to query the connection-state.
> 
>  Hallo !
> 
>  I think, some more info is better.
> 
>  It work by having a little daemon running.
>  Each Programm "Client" (in my case: shell-scripts) that need
>  Networkaccess  register itself (using a small C-Programm) to the daemon,
>  the daemon  creates an connection to the Network (using system-provided
>  script, on  SuSE-Linux /etc/suseppp/scripts/ppp-up, this is
>  configurable) and notify the Client about the link-state.

Hi Bjoern,

I think this is exactly what is needed for KDE as well.

Cheers,
Waldo